[Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

[John Vandenberg]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 March 2011 10:14, Pavel Richter <pavel.richter at wikimedia.de> wrote:
>> But who says that the sole purpose of the WMF is to keep Wikimedia wikis
>> running?
>
> I don't think many people would say that's the sole purpose of the
> WMF, but I think most would agree that it is the primary purpose. The
> amount of other work the WMF does in addition to that should be
> balanced by the harm caused by the extra fundraising required.

I think this articulates the issue very well.

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John Vandenberg